GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

A patient is on morphine and you want to convert it to another opioid like hydromorphone (dilaudid). Dr. Akhila Reddy and colleagues study looking at converting hospitalized cancer patients from IV hydromorphone to PO morphine, PO hydromorphone, or PO oxycodone. Step four is adjusting it for your patient. How do you do that?

IT 139

IT Patients Individual Relationship 139

FDA Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

Prescribing Red Flags In the Gulf Med decision, DEA emphasized that “[r]ed flags are circumstances surrounding a prescription that cause a pharmacist to take pause, including signs of diversion or the potential for patient harm.” The expert specifically found that: Patient A.R. The expert specifically found that: Patient A.R.

Insurance 52

Insurance Patients Utilities Chronic Condition 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Effective and efficient management of multimorbidity presents a significant challenge for aging societies. Polydoctoring, characterized by patients with multimorbidity receiving treatment from multiple specialists, often leads to fragmented care, associated with polypharmacy and increased medical costs.

Chronic Condition 130

Chronic Condition Insurance Utilities Hospital 130

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

Arizona’s climate and lifestyle present specific health considerations that our Mesa-based medical professionals are specially trained to address. For Mesa residents dealing with these ongoing health challenges, regular visits to Mesa Family Physicians ensure that your condition remains well-controlled and complications are minimized.

Family Physician 100

Family Physician Preventative Care Preventive Care Families 100

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. When I see a patient? Matthew, I get the lyrics.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

You present your. And also kind of highlights, you know, part of what we try to do in geriatrics and palliative care is really individualize how we care for individual, like, the people in front of us, the patients, the caregivers, their family members, their friends. So that’s how. Just how you. Your gender. Jace 27:04 Sure.

Individual 81

Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 81

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

But if we have this disconnect, we have to be able to recognize it, recognize that this is important for patients and families. I think about the days in ICU when I saw families struggling, patients suffering towards really poor outcomes for the person in the bed, for what the family members were going through. It was great.

Community 128

Community Families Family IT 128

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

And just going back to that patient, I’ll tell you, before I started this role, I would have probably looked at the handout box in our clinic and been like, oh, okay. We just kind of start to amass these handouts and I would give them to the patient. Is it the patient? Eric: Wait, county 911? Lindsey: Our county 211.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

And so the patients who had been admitted there to die, essentially most, if not all, got better and HIV became much more of a chronic condition. It is kind of weird that my first publication was in jama, part of the Care of the Aging Patient series. And then in the years soon after, everything changed completely.

Primary Care 94

Primary Care IT Clinic Provider 94

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Care Ecosystem.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

These measures are taken before any evidence of disease or injury is present and are designed to prevent health problems from occurring in the first place. At Mesa Family Physicians, we follow the CDC-recommended immunization schedules for all age groups and work with patients to ensure they’re up-to-date on all recommended vaccines.

Preventative Care 100

Preventative Care Preventive Care Family Physician Screening 100

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We talk with Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones about the hospital-at-home movement, which has been shown to reduce costs, improve outcomes and improve the patient experience. JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115